Improvement in making tin boxes



` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. HAYWOOD, OF DURHAM, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO MARIAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAKING TIN BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,689, dated August 2,' 1864.

and drawings in such a manner that I do fullyy y believe will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine.

I willproceed to describe the process and the mode of operation by referring to the draw ings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

This improvement relates to the making of tin boxes, &e., such as are used for rattleboxes, medicine, spices, &c., without the necessity ofsoldering or other fastenings.

The nature of this improvement consists in the process or method of producing the same result by a rotary or cylindrical motion. (instead of a sliding plate/7) as shown and described in my formerpatent, or,in other words, the invention or improvement consists in the production of an old manufacture by means of a new process or mode of operation in the making of tin boxes, Src. A

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional side view. Fig. 2 is a perpendicular cross-section view.

e is theframe-work or sides of the machine between which the mechanism is arranged.

A is a cylinder vsecured upon a shaft, B, which has its bearings in or upon the sides a. Said cylinder is operated by a pulley or crank, C.

D represents a steel band (or other metal band) secured in a proper manner upon the in well-known use for such purposes. The` space at I is designed for a funnel into which the boxes B may be placed in any desirable number that the said funnel may be made to contain.7 I propose sometimes (if it shall be found to be advisable) a band of rubber or othersuitable material on the face ofthe cylinder between the ridges for the purpose of producing additional friction to the box B as it is passing along through the channel between the cylinder A and the die H. Now, it will be seen that when the boX B is placed or fed into the funnel I between the ridges E, both on the revolving cylinder A and the die H, it will be moved or revolved by the action of the cylinder over t-he said ridges E, thereby firmly and smoothly turning down the-flange edge of the head or bottom G not only of one box, but of as many as will conveniently follow one after the other, without any stoppage or change of motion. I have thus endeavored to show the nature and advantage of this improvement, so as to enable a person skilled to make and use the same.

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is-

The machine constructed and arranged, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

- v CHAS. J. HAYWOOD. Vitnesses:

F. G. MANDEVILLE, J .p W. BLIss. 

